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This is too good. Robert McDonnell, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, wrote a Master’s thesis calling working women and feminists “detrimental” to the family. Wait, it gets better.

He said government policy should favor married couples over “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators.” He described as “illogical” a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples.

Tennessee’s most recent effort to prevent drunk driving was laugh-out-loud sexist. The Booze It And Lose It campaign, paid for with a federal grant and run by the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, was aimed at young men — the people most likely to drive drunk — and chose sexism as a method for driving home the message that drinking impairs your judgement.

Pretty sure a lot of people in the Governor’s Highway Safety Office were drunk when this one was proposed and approved.

“After a few drinks the girls look hotter and the music sounds better,” the campaign materials tell their target audience, which appears to be straight men who don’t mind being condescended to.

The good news is, people complained, ...

Tennessee’s most recent effort to prevent drunk driving was laugh-out-loud sexist. The Booze It And Lose It campaign, paid for with a federal grant and run by the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, was aimed at young men ...

Sometimes fighting the patriarchy is about the little things. Like, really little.

In a post on Medium, Facebook design manager Caitlin Winner describes how she recently updated the site’s Friends and Groups icons so that the woman silhouette is now in front of the man and of equal size.

It’s a miniscule change, of course, but as Winner notes, symbols matter and are worth questioning. Why was it considered so natural, for so long, that the man silhouette be in front of the woman, literally leading?

And the change seems symbolic (speaking of symbols) of the kind of new perspective gained by diversifying your workforce. Just imagine what other default settings — big and small — might get changed if Facebook

Sometimes fighting the patriarchy is about the little things. Like, really little.

In a post on Medium, Facebook design manager Caitlin Winner describes how she recently updated the site’s Friends and Groups icons so that ...

Summer hits rock my socks like no other section of the music calendar. I love good summer songs that make me think of the beach, kissing my boo, or driving for days through the countryside. I love bouncing beats and lip-sync jam sessions. What I don’t love is finding the patriarchy wrapped in my techno-rap-pop amalgamated remix.

There’s this song on the radio right now that meets my qualifications for a summer hit. I don’t want to think too hard about it, and when it comes on, I find myself wishing to be in a club. There’s something about bright, laser lights mixed with dingy qualities that really gets my blood going. I sing in the car, and while I ...

Summer hits rock my socks like no other section of the music calendar. I love good summer songs that make me think of the beach, kissing my boo, or driving for days through the countryside. I ...